Jose Ferreira was 16 when 13 - year - onetime Carrie Ann Jopek went miss from a Milwaukee house company they both advert in 1982 ; her soundbox was found 17 months later sink beneath the rest home ’s porch . Though he was considered a suspect at the time , he denied any noesis of her expiry . Until now .
Incredibly , Ferreira — now 50 years old — kept his darkest secret hidden for 33 years , until earlier this month . On October 11 , theNew York Timesreports , Ferreira ’s married woman alert Milwaukee police that her husband had admitted the crime to her . That same solar day , a local television station and a crisis counselor also contacted police with the same story : Ferreira had finally cracked .
He was arrested and charge with second - degree reckless murder on October 17 , and Carrie Ann Jopek ’s family finally know what happened to the adolescent at that 1982 party . accord to the Milwaukee Journal - Sentinel :
[ Ferreira ] told a detective that he , Jopek and several other adolescent had skipped school and were at house party [ on ] the same block on which they both survive . There was alcohol and marijuana . He order he offer Jopek a strike of marijuana , which she essay , but she cough .
They agreed to go to the basement where he expected they would “ make out , ” he suppose , but then Jopek expressed reservations . That ’s when , Ferriera enjoin , he pushed Jopek and she tumbled down the step . When he notice her unconscious at the bottom , he groped her breasts . When he tried to pick her up , he said , he substantiate her neck was break .
That ’s when , accord to the ill , he drag her through the cellar to an exterior cellar door , and access to the space under the rear porch . He spent about 45 moment digging a hole , then swallow up Jopek .
Ferreira told a investigator he was watching when the carpenter found the remains month later , and he view the adolescent who host the political party , who was stand in the backyard , vomit .
A few days later , after the news of the sick discovery died down , Ferreira knelt crying at the website , apologise to Jopek , until he noticed another neighbour find out and left . Hours later , law arrived to question him , and he order he followed his brother ’s advice to deny any noesis of Jopek ’s destiny .
The victim ’s relieved female parent , Carolyn Tousignant , tell the Times that despite all the suspicion that had been directed his path over the years , she never imagine Ferreira was capable of committing slaying . Except , as she recall , his sense of right and wrong was oddly troubled :
“ After they found Carrie ’s body , he told me she was obsess him , ” she say .
Tousignantelaborated on that to WISN , the Milwaukee news station that find Ferreira ’s long - look confession .
“ Carrie was haunting him . She kept on until it worked . She was pertinacious , a very persistent child she was , ” Carrie ’s female parent said .
Top epitome : Grave of Carrie Ann Jopek in Arlington Park Cemetery in Greenfield , Wisconsin . ( AP Photo / Carrie Antlfinger )
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